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Background
Lawson is a renowned American Journalist and Blogger famous for Jenny her irreverent humor and collection of century old, taxidermied animals. Her blog, The Bloggess, averages 2-3 million page views per month and was named one of the Top 100 Websites for Women by Forbes. Her memoir, Let’s Pretend This Never Happened, debuted at the top the Washington Post and New York Times nonfiction bestsellers lists.
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Objective
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reate a cohesive promotional website for Let’s Pretend This Never Happened using art direction from the cover. Jenny Lawson has a large fan base through her website and it is important to create a website for them that showcases Jenny Lawson’s on line brand. For the uninitiated, this website needs to be a starting off point, or an introduction into Lawson’s slightly off-color humor and unique writing style.
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Inspiration J.K. Rowling http://www.jkrowling.com/en_US/#/
Nicholas Sparks http://www.nicholassparks.com/#
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Site Map
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Preliminary Process Sketches
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“Even when I was152x140 funny, I wasn’t this funny” Quotes 15%x23% Augusten Burroughs RunningWith Scissors “Hilarious....... totally inappropriate.” Marie Claire Magazine
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Link The Bloggess “Even when I was funny, I wasn’t this funny” 222x85 23%x14%Augusten Burroughs RunningWith Scissors “Hilarious....... totally inappropriate.” Marie Claire Magazine
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“Even when I was funny, I wasn’t this funny” Augusten Burroughs RunningWith Scissors “Hilarious....... totally inappropriate.” Marie Claire Magazine
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“Even when I was funny, I wasn’t this funny” Augusten Burroughs RunningWith Scissors “Hilarious....... totally inappropriate.” Marie Claire Magazine Book Promotional Website Design / Kat Corona / IM231 Interface Design / Fall 2012
Sketches
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Let’s Pretend this never happened: A mostly true memoir
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shoes made out of used bread sacks. It did, however, open up an opportunity for Lawson to find the humor in the strange shame-spiral that is her life, and we are all the better for it. Lawson's long-suffering husband and sweet daughter help her uncover the surprising discovery that the most terrible human moments – the ones we want to pretend never happened – are the very same moments that make us the
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“The Bloggessquotes writes stuff that actually is laugh-out-loud, but you know that really you shouldn’t Praise be474 laughinxg and254 probably you’ll go to hell for laughing, so maybe you shouldn’t read it. That would be safer and wiser.” 37% x 24% -Neil Gaiman, author of The Sandman, Stardust, American Gods and Coraline “Jenny Lawson will make you laugh again and again – at things you didn’t even know were funny. And what’s more, she can write. What she knows about pacing, punchlines, setups and surprises could fill a book. Lucky for us, it’s this one. - Katherine Center, author of The Bright Side of Disaster, Everyone Is Beautiful, and Get Lucky Social Media Buttons 59 x 59 each 4% x 5% each
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Let’s Pretend this never happened: A mostly true memoir
When Jenny Lawson was little, all she ever wanted was
to fit in. That dream was cut short by her fantastically unbalanced father and a childhood of wearing winter shoes made out of used bread sacks. It did, however, open up an opportunity for Lawson to find the humor in the strange shame-spiral that is her life, and we are all the better for it. Lawson's long-suffering husband and sweet daughter help her uncover the surprising discovery that the most terrible human moments – the ones we want to pretend never happened – are the very same moments that make us the Copyright © Copyright 2012 - Kat Corona
“The Bloggess writes stuff that actually is laugh-out-loud, but you know that really you shouldn’t be laughing and probably you’ll go to hell for laughing, so maybe you shouldn’t read it. That would be safer and wiser.” -Neil Gaiman, author of The Sandman, Stardust, American Gods and Coraline “Jenny Lawson will make you laugh again and again – at things you didn’t even know were funny. And what’s more, she can write. What she knows about pacing, punchlines, setups and surprises could fill a book. Lucky for us, it’s this one. - Katherine Center, author of The Bright Side of Disaster, Everyone Is Beautiful, and Get Lucky
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And then I snuck a dead Cuban Alligator on an Airplane
“I am a moderately successful writer, and if I want to buy an
ethically taxidermied mouse I should not have to justify it to anyone.” This was what I was screaming as Victor glared at me, drigging rainwater all over our foyer. In truth, we weren't really arguing about whether I was allowed to spend money. We were arguing about the face that the taxidermied mouse I'd bought had been lost. The delivery website said it was left on the porch, but it was nowhere to be seen. I suspected burglars, but even imagining the small compensation of their mystified faces as they opened the box containing a dead mouse wasn't enough
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And That’s Why you should learn to pick your battles
Victor was surprisingly pissed that I'd “wasted money”
on an enormous chicken, because apparently he couldn't appreciate the hysterical value of a five-foot chicken ringing the doorbell. Then I said, “Well, at least it's not towels,” and apparently that the wrong thing to say, because that was when Victor screamed and stormed off, but I knew he was locked in his office, because I could hear him punching things in there. Then I yelled through his door, “It's an anniversary gift for you, asshole. Two whole weeks early. FIFTEEN YEARS IS BIG METAL CHICKENS.” Then he yelled that he wanted it gone, but I couldn’t
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Known for her sardonic wit and her hysterically skewed
outlook on life, Jenny Lawson has made millions of people question their own sanity, as they found themselves admitting that they, too, often wondered why Jesus wan't classified as a zombie, or laughed to the point of bladder failure when she accidentally forgot that she mailed herself a cobra. Lawson's blog (Thebloggess.com) is award-winning and extremely popular, averaging 2-3 million page views every month. She also writes for the Houston Chronicle and Sexis Magazine. Along with her husband, Victor, daughter, Hailey, and their three cats, Lawson keeps reader entertained with stories Copyright Š Copyright 2012 - Kat Corona
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